Monthly Archives: April 2022

Elite v Popular Discourse on Crime & Race & Subway shooter (4-13-22)

00:00 Brooklyn shooting suspect Frank James facing terror-related charges after calling Crime Stoppers on himself, https://nypost.com/2022/04/13/brooklyn-shooting-suspect-frank-james-in-police-custody/ 35:00 Elliott Blatt joins 37:30 Ethan Ralph’s upcoming corn harvest 41:00 With Mr Metokurs health problems, when he appears he’s like Elvis 49:00 Maybe … Continue reading

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Explaining away crime: The race narrative in American sociology and ethical theory

Stephen Turner writes in 2020: Rates of crime for Blacks in the United States in the post-slavery era have always been high relative to Whites. But explaining, or minimizing, this fact faces a major problem: individual excuses for bad acts … Continue reading

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Tucker Carlson Talks To Amy Wax About Saving Western Civilization (4-11-22)

00:00 Amy Wax firestorm over bourgeois values, https://www.inquirer.com/philly/opinion/commentary/paying-the-price-for-breakdown-of-the-countrys-bourgeois-culture-20170809.html 02:00 UPenn law professor tells Tucker Carlson that “Blacks” and other “non-Western” groups harbor “resentment and shame and envy”, https://www.inquirer.com/news/amy-wax-university-of-pennsylvania-law-school-20220411.html 12:00 The moral responsibilities of white males, https://nation.foxnews.com/watch/88a707094b42181e759c8730ea5a17b7/ 53:50 Amy Wax has … Continue reading

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Post-Tradition

Stephen Turner writes in 2021: * The arrival of the war focused the discussion of the moral crisis. One theme was the question of what the war was being fought for: Robert Maynard Hutchins and John Dewey debated the question … Continue reading

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Ordinary World (4-7-22)

It’s 5:56 pm. I’m on my 2406 step of the day according to my iPhone. It’s 90 degrees. I’m listening to the Audible recording of the 25th anniversary edition of The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes. Passover … Continue reading

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